Children use to write some letters to an old Lappish man, vowing a total lack of wrongdoing and promising small sacrifices in case of unwanted episodes. They contain list of desires, sometimes from temporary tastes, proactive marketing or personal ideas. Parents often give passions, sometimes accidentaly, sometimes following their nature. Enrico, at 21 years stopped signing letters to Santa for years and acting as an altar boy, expecially if the topic is car: Enrico likes driving hard, time ago has started to sign check to realize his desires and he doesn’t wait any finnish answer, eventually in German: Auto, e30 325i, fur den Export.

In december 2012 finally Enrico succeeded to import in Italy a ’88 dolphin metallic e30 325u, with Mtech 2, open roof, electrical mirror and 205/40 -215/40 tyres. It’s the start of a renoval and fine mechanical tune-up path that has guided this BMW on Spaghetti Garage’s pages.

As the car is elder than the owner, it was ruined both by middle European bad weather and by inadeguate use of previous owner. Due to these reasons Enrico has focused his effort on the removal of little rust and then on a complete paintjob. The engine needs a complete check to join all the potentiality of the 2,5 liter 170 hp six cylinder SOHC.

Ended the mandatory activities, all the cares have been moved to handling tune-up. The entire wheel group – hub, disk, caliber, wheel and tyre – has been totally revolutioned. Appreciation for BMW OEM look was the pin around which build the modifies: 17” BMW wheels are all in 5×120, so the car needs a complete hub swaps with e36 one. To refine drive experience and complete the mechanical swap Enrico has installed braided hoses, front 330mm disk brake from a Ford Mondeo with Brembo’s Porsche Boxster 4 POT caliber and 286mm rear disk brakes and hubs from M3 E30.

17 inch scomponibles in two pieces BBS Style 5 RC was fitted: 8 inch with offset 20 and 9 inch with offset 19 both with external center and rounded allen screws. Polished lip with silver grey centers is a classic outfit while 17 inch diameter matches with MTech II kit. Front suspension was totally rebuild: the original spindle was substituted by a shorter threaded one with Bilstein cartridge and specific spring and the same idea was replicated in the rear. Final touches, Z3 steering box and LSD were installed for a complete tune-up.

As hinted at before, is the MTech II kit to act the protagonist role. Since its creation it has been a bone of contention for all e30 enthisasts: aero kit rounds and modernize e30 lines and well matches with big wheels with lowered tyres. The rare dolphin metallic brights after the complete paintjob and a little bodywork adjustments of arches to host wheels and reduce the risk of contacts and frictions.

Enrico has set up all the external modifies manteining the bond with smart and racing world with dolphin metallic and MTech 2 but he didn’t want any compromise for interiors, totally devoted to rally style with OMP steering wheel, tris of gauges and Honda ITR’s Recaro Speed.

We have followed Enrico’s adventures since the purchase on Cleaned.it forum waiting the right occasion to meet each other and finalize the reciprocal respect: fortunately in the last September there was the weekend of Banana Meeting 4. This ee30 represents what we perceive for passion for automotive and taste for modifies: continuous mechanical improvements for handling and aesthetic ones for an awesome look have let this e30 as one of the more complete and coherent project realized in the last year in Italy. We leave with the iconoclastic photo of e30 world. Bye bye Henry!